MTC Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson about 108 miles northeast of San Angelo is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

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(AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditioning, which could ...

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat. Prison staff and inmates move through the Darrington Unit's main hallway on ...

Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering facilities that lack air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional,” U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said Wednesday in a groundbreaking ...

About 85,000 Texas inmates live in units that lack air conditioning in most living spaces, and at least 41 prisoners died in uncooled prisons during a 2023 Texas heat wave, according to the Texas ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering facilities that lack air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional,” U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said Wednesday in a ...